Harness-buckle.



No. 744,714. PATENTED NOV. 24, 1903.

F., E. & H. BO'L'D T. V HARNESS BUCKLE.

"\ APPLIGATION FILED MAY 29, 1903. N0 MODEL.

ga Z P UNIT D STATES i atented November 24, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRED BOLDT, ERNEST BOLDT, AND HERMAN BOLDT, on ALBION, MICHIGAN.

HARNESS-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 744,714, dated November 24, 1903.

' Application filed May 29,1903. semi No. 159,318. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FRED BOLDT, ERNEST Bonn, and HERMAN BOLDT, citizens of the United States, residing at Albion, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan,have invented a new and useful Harness-Buckle, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buckles, more particularly to those employed upon various parts of harnesses, and has for its object to improve and simplify the construction and means of attachment between the buckle and strap and to obviate the necessity for sewing or riveting; and the invention consists in certain novel features of the construction, as hereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claim.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention, in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the improved buckle applied. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the buckle-frame with the straps and snap removed.

The improved device may be employed at many points upon harnesses, but is.more particularlyapplicable to those parts wheresnaps, ring-loops, or similar devices are employed, and for the purpose of illustration is shown with an ordinary snap 10 connected thereto.

The improved buckle frame consists of spaced side members 11 12, connected at the ends by transverse bars 13 14. The bar 14 is relatively broad and inclined to the plane of the side members and is provided with a hook 15, with which the loop of the snap 10 engages, as shown. The bar 13 connects the opposite ends of the side members 1112 at on the same side as the bar 13 and relatively inclined to the plane of the frame and terminates at one edge nearly in alinement with the adjacent inner edge of the bar 13, while the opposite edge is similarly disposed relative to the bar 17, as shown.

Extending from the inner surface of the bar 16 is a tongue or spur 18, being located, preferably, nearer to the bar 17 than to the bar 13, as shown.

The strap is represented at 19 and will be perforated at one end and engaging the spur 18 thereby, and thence passed around the hook 15, and thence threaded between the ,bars 14 17 and thence between the bars 13 16 and the terminal of the strap, as shown.

In passing between the bar 17 andthe in clined bar 14 the strap is deflected and is again deflected as it passes beneath the bar 13 and overthe inclined bar 16, as shown. By this meansa double-gripping force is applied to the strap,"o'ne between the parts 17 14 and the other between the parts 13 16, which greatly increases the holding power and relieves the stud 18 very largely from pulling strains, as the strains are thus distributed between the various transverse bars, as will be obvious. The portion of the strap between the bars 13 17 is also by this arrangement pressed firmly upon the portion of the strap resting upon the fiat relatively broad inclined bar 16 and not only efiectuallyprevents displacement of the strap, but likewise increases the friction between the strap and flat surface of the bar, and thereby to a still greater extent decreases the strainsupon the stud 18. v

The whole device is very simple in construction, can be in one single piece of malleable iron or steel, and can be formed of any required size to adapt it to straps of various sizes and applied to various parts of the barness.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim isj p A buckle comprising flat side bars having their lower edges curved upwardly toward their ends with their upper edges approximately straight, said bars being connected at one end at their upper edges by a flat transverse bar, and connected at their other end by an obliquely-disposed bar having a downturned hook, a transverse bar spaced from said hook carrying bar and slightly ofiset from and connecting the upper edges of said side bars at an intermediate point forming a contracted throat between its frontedge and said obliquely disposed hook carrying bar, and a comparatively Wide bar uniting the lower edges of said side bars between the intermediate upper and flat end bars, said bottom bar being inclined upwardly toward the end of the buckle having the fiat cross-bar,

and bottom bar having a spur projecting upwardly from its inner face.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures 15 in the presence of two witnesses.

FRED BOLDT. ERNEST BOLDT. HERMAN BOLDT. 1 Witnesses:

ARZA L. McGUToHEoN, A. D. ELLIOTT. 

